It’s not just the NFL that’s under pressure to remove violence from the game. Major-league baseball’s rules committee said Thursday, according to various reports, that it would seek to ban home-plate collisions.

ESPN reported that the ban could be in place as soon as the 2014 season but might have to wait till 2015. The rule change is subject to approval by MLB owners and, if implementation is sought for 2014, by the players union.

Sandy Alderson, general manager of the New York Mets and the chairman of the MLB rules committee, said the move to ban collisions had resulted from “a few issues that have arisen,” telling ESPN:

“One is just the general occurrence of injuries from these incidents at home plate that affect players, both runners and catchers. And also kind of the general concern about concussions that exists not only in baseball but throughout professional sports and amateur sports today. It’s an emerging issue, and one that we in baseball have to address, as well as other sports.”

Minnesota Twins catcher Joe Mauer and San Francisco Giants catcher Buster Posey are among the stars of the game who have missed playing time of late due to head injury. Mauer, in fact, is being moved to first base for the 2014 season.

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